A Samsung device going by the name Lucky-LTE has cropped up on the GeekBench benchmark with a chipset called “universal8890”. The chipset is speculated to be the Exynos 8890 SoC from Samsung. According to the leak, it features an octa-core processor and is clocked in at 1.38GHz.
The leaks show that tThe device managed to get a single core score of 1336 while the multi core score was 4824 on GeekBench, which is pretty close to Samsung’s current Exynos 7420 chipset running on devices like the Galaxy Note 5, Galaxy S6 Edge+, Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge. Needless to mention that the scores clocked on Geekbench are quite impressive. The Lucky-LTE was running Android 5.1.1 and had 4GB of RAM.
The Exynos 7420 is considered, by many, to be one of the best SoCs currently on the market. Meizu’s upcoming flagship, the Meizu NIUX, will reportedly feature the Exynos 7420. It will have 3GB of RAM and 32GB of storage along with a 21MP rear camera and a 5MP rear camera.
If the Exynos 8890 is the next generation of chipsets by Samsung, then it will be up against the MediaTek’s Helio X20 and the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820. The Helio X20 was unveiled back in May this year and leaked AnTuTu Benchmark images suggest that it will break the 70,000 mark. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 will use Qualcomm’s Kryo cores leaked images showed that it scored 83,774 on AnTuTu Benchmark.